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Bolted horses

Last month, just before I finally posted my second blog post (go me) I attended the Open Athens conference 2018. I wasn't bowling over with enthusiasm for the event because conferences are always that great blend of some very interesting and novel information plus lots of bumfy meh and sales pitches. However I went and actually had a good time and networked a bit so all in all a worthwhile and inexpensive event so thank you Open Athens for arranging. If you are interested in the content of the conference you can listen to the plenaries here . The last plenary was by Torsten Reimer from the British Library , on making 'everything available', e.g. trying to make British Library content more accessible to customers. That part was interesting, but I myself have been fixating on the words from the first 6 minutes of his plenary for the past 2 weeks. Start listing from about 3.40 in the YouTube recording to around 5.54, just over 2 minutes of you life, go on I think its worth i